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well, speaking of treating field recordings and surround, Absynth is indeed a different beast. I'm just re-discovering Absynth, and had a good session with it last night. Only with presets, without Lemur. Just keyboard and modulation/pitch wheel. Surely another suitable Lemur target, and I'm looking forward to explore that instrument. I've never used a controller with it, and was searching for that template of yours. Got new audio monitors, quadro channel format is becoming more important again. Love Absynth's surround settings.

I wonder what field recordings you make. That was almost a piece of art in the old days, like photography. Today we have usable microphones and plenty of storage in small mobile devices, sound sampling and field recording has become so easy.


EDIT:
did some simple automation with the FM8 recording, and thought why not show how it sounds:

http://soundcloud.com/p_s2/testlemurnew06a03

The main sound is made with the FM8 synthesiser, with additional sounds from Reaktor Ensembles and a modular system. All instruments, software or hardware, have been live controlled by hand or Lemur's physics. Each track has been overdubbed, sometimes with muted previous tracks. It is therefore a rather accidental mix of different Lemur-controlled experiments.

In order to activate breakpoint in ableton do you by chance happen to have to be connected to certain instrument racks or perhaps activate something inside them.

neobahamut01 wrote:In order to activate breakpoint in ableton do you by chance happen to have to be connected to certain instrument racks or perhaps activate something inside them.

Hey, sorry, I am not sure to understand correcty the question, do you meant it doesn't trig any of your midi instruments?

Let me know, thanks,
AB

Phil999 wrote:well, speaking of treating field recordings and surround, Absynth is indeed a different beast. I'm just re-discovering Absynth, and had a good session with it last night. Only with presets, without Lemur. Just keyboard and modulation/pitch wheel. Surely another suitable Lemur target, and I'm looking forward to explore that instrument. I've never used a controller with it, and was searching for that template of yours. Got new audio monitors, quadro channel format is becoming more important again. Love Absynth's surround settings.

I wonder what field recordings you make. That was almost a piece of art in the old days, like photography. Today we have usable microphones and plenty of storage in small mobile devices, sound sampling and field recording has become so easy.


EDIT:
did some simple automation with the FM8 recording, and thought why not show how it sounds:

http://soundcloud.com/p_s2/testlemurnew06a03

The main sound is made with the FM8 synthesiser, with additional sounds from Reaktor Ensembles and a modular system. All instruments, software or hardware, have been live controlled by hand or Lemur's physics. Each track has been overdubbed, sometimes with muted previous tracks. It is therefore a rather accidental mix of different Lemur-controlled experiments.

thanks for posting this Phil, some nice ambients there! Yes, absynth really deserves a look imo.

I do field/sound recording, but rarely time I do use them like they are originally (there are some Absynth 5 factory sounds you can to listen), I mean, I do use them to transform them into other sounds, loading them on absynth,alchemy,kontakt and UI metasynth (would be a dream to inteactuate with metasynth from lemur, but it doesn't support MIDI Control Changes or OSC, hopefully some day) http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

Also if you have a contact mics there is micro sound universe to explore there, there is a web where you can find them and they are a good/unexpensive ones to start: I do use the model [Basic Contact Microphone - 1/4" Stereo Set with Alligator Clips]

http://contactmicrophones.com/

Sorry the offtopic

Cheers,
AB

Hey there,

Just I thought to post an very deep italian review (including video too) of abreakpoint 2 template for those italian friends. if you're interested here the link:

http://seequencer.it/2012/03/09/abreakpoint2/

Cheers and grazzie mile

congratulation. In my view your templates are nothing but pieces of art, they deserve the homage. Many, many Lemur users are very thankful for your work that you provide for free. This is very generous.

OT: I fully agree on what you said about contact microphones. I got one as a simple means to record the Cello, and found a multitude of other applications. Actually this contact mic was one of the first sound generators I had in the beginning, was used as some sort of kick drum replacement, and was my only microphone at that time (although a headphone can be used as microphone as well).

Phil, many thanks for the kind words man, my pleasure, very glad to know you enjoy these tools.

About CM, yes, totally love them, is great to find people here interested in that stuff! if anytime you want to share some recordings, just let me know

Take care,
AB

btw- I will contact you in case you are intested for other new breakpoint sound design tool

I totally love them, they're brilliant. And a new breakpoint sound design tool ... of course I'm interested!

And it's true, CM's are not very commonly used. Actually you're the first one I know speaking about it. Might try it out on the big Tibetan bowl I got last year. And for the field and experimental recordings I've done over the last 20 years, I just learned that my SV-3700 DAT recorder doesn't run properly. It worked alright a month ago. But I think I can fix it, I just need to open it first and see what's wrong.

For new recordings, I must admit that I've become a bit lazy. Yesterday I made some new metal samples for Kontakt, but all the sources I downloaded from the internet (freesound.org, etc.).

I too have been very curious about contact microphones and was wondering about getting one. I am just now getting a look at your breakpoint stuff and loving it, but it will take some time to figure out.

Phil999 wrote:I totally love them, they're brilliant. And a new breakpoint sound design tool ... of course I'm interested!

And it's true, CM's are not very commonly used. Actually you're the first one I know speaking about it. Might try it out on the big Tibetan bowl I got last year. And for the field and experimental recordings I've done over the last 20 years, I just learned that my SV-3700 DAT recorder doesn't run properly. It worked alright a month ago. But I think I can fix it, I just need to open it first and see what's wrong.

For new recordings, I must admit that I've become a bit lazy. Yesterday I made some new metal samples for Kontakt, but all the sources I downloaded from the internet (freesound.org, etc.).

Hey Phil,

I will send the new tool, don't know when but I will, right now very limited time for lemuring unfortunately, so this is a work in progress by now, I have a video of the concept if you want to have an idea, it is basically a 2D interpolator where the 8 sliders are connected (in my case) to a granular buffer that is recording the contact mic inputs in real time (but only the modified signal is heared) . The video looks a bit "laggy", recorded with OSX quicktime

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6638624/Vekter.mov

About CM, yes, totally agree, they are a very interesting tool imho, at the first one can say, bah, sounds all the same, but it get very interesting when you start experimenting with different surfaces.
Don't worry about of recordings, just asked cuz I like to share/hear with other people, I will send with the project some recs too, and if you want send back other recs, I would more than happy to hear them-

shimoda wrote:I too have been very curious about contact microphones and was wondering about getting one. I am just now getting a look at your breakpoint stuff and loving it, but it will take some time to figure out.

Hi shimoda, there are some curious sound examples here:
http://contactmicrophones.com/howtheysound.html

Btw, many thanks, glad to hear you like the abreakpoint template.

Cheers,AB